
Sometimes we have to pull a meal together with little time to spare. Avoid last minute freak out sessions by stocking your pantry with a few essential items so that you can pull together quick and healthy green meals in a flash.

This blogger set a challenge to her readers: make dinner using only ingredients from your pantry. The list of fifteen ingredients below were the only things you were allowed to include.

t's easy to stock a pantry well, but cooking delicious meals from it isn't always easy. Rice, pasta, and olive oil can all be transformed with a pinch of imagination and a dash of inspiration.

Only a few days back from my trip to Kenya, I was still feeling a bit tired and not terribly interested in cooking, so a crock pot meal seemed like the appropriate thing to do.

Give your dishes a worldly flavor with some of Marcus Samuelsson's favorite spices on Discovery's "Inner Chef." :: Via our friends at HowStuffWorks.com

I wanted to try this Jamaican stew right away. My daughter was home for the Canadian Thanksgiving weekend and I thought this was something that she could easily make for herself once she was back at school. Like most university students, she is on a pretty tight budget, so finding nutritious, economical meals is always important.

This dish isn't going to win any culinary beauty contests, and as it was cooking, I thought it was a good thing my husband was on vacation. It seemed like it might be one of those recipes that he might put on his "long suffering Planet Green guinea pig" side of the slate. As it turned out, it was quite tasty and I really enjoyed it.
wordridden I know I suggested a bean dish earlier in the week as a potluck contribution, but this recipe is quite different. Tuna and Bean SaladServes 4 1 cup dried white kidney beans, or cannellini beans (navy) or 1 20 oz. can of either1/2 Bermuda onion, thinly sliced and soaked in water for 1 hourSalt to taste1 7 oz...

I was writing a post for TreeHugger for my new series On Moving Toward Vegetarianism, when I thought, I really should include a recipe to illustrate my point. So in the middle of writing, I left my desk, ran to the kitchen and made Baked Quinoa with Spinach and Cheese.

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